Highlighting the historical importance of the mining sector in South Africa, Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu emphasised that the sector must also play a role in the country's socioeconomic development in the future, and reiterated the need for the mining industry to "engage with issues of the green economy". "The buzzword globally is the 'greenifica-tion' of the mining industry. I firmly believe that this new approach is a global imperative, not only for sustainable mining but also for sustainable development, in general," she said at the first South African Green Economy summit, which was held in Johannesburg in May.
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